Life expectancy- the average life span of a country's population.
The life expectancy in the United States is currently 78, this means that Jessica and her friends have almost 3/4's of their lives left to accomplish all the things they want.
Suburbs- urban areas beyond the political boundaries of a city
Jessica's house is in a quite suburban area with many other expensive houses.
Metropolis- a large city that dominates and urban are socially and economically.
Jessica and her friends take trips into the city to go shopping at the mall in the beginning of the movie.
Demographic transition theory- a thesis that links population patterns to a society's level of technological development.
The United States, which is the setting of the movie, is in the stage 4 of the demographic transition theory which states that the birthrate keeps falling because dual-income couples have become the norm and the cost of raising children has increased. This can be seen in the movie because Jessica's family only consists of 2 kids which is now the average in America.
Urbanization- The concentration of populations into cities.
All of the characters in this movie are in an urban area because they live in a fairly large city.
Fertility- The incidence of childbearing in a country's population.
All of the married women in this movie would be fertile because they all have had children and started a family.
Gesellschaft- A type of social organization in which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest.
Jessica and the other students attend high school based on their own interests of receiving a decent profession and making a living.
Migration-The movement of people into and out of a specified territory.
On the night of prom almost the entire student body migrates to a hotel ballroom for the occasion. When the dance is over they all migrate away from the hotel to their post prom festivities.
Melora Hardin as Carol in Touchstone's The Hot Chick - 2002
- The life expectancy in the United States is currently 78, this means that Jessica and her friends have almost 3/4's of their lives left to accomplish all the things they want.
Suburbs- urban areas beyond the political boundaries of a city- Jessica's house is in a quite suburban area with many other expensive houses.
Metropolis- a large city that dominates and urban are socially and economically.- Jessica and her friends take trips into the city to go shopping at the mall in the beginning of the movie.
Demographic transition theory- a thesis that links population patterns to a society's level of technological development.Urbanization- The concentration of populations into cities.
- All of the characters in this movie are in an urban area because they live in a fairly large city.
Fertility- The incidence of childbearing in a country's population.- All of the married women in this movie would be fertile because they all have had children and started a family.
Gesellschaft- A type of social organization in which people come together only on the basis of individual self-interest.- Jessica and the other students attend high school based on their own interests of receiving a decent profession and making a living.
Migration-The movement of people into and out of a specified territory.